Sports council vows to boost fund-raising<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The National Sports Council (KONI) started the
\nnew year with a vow to intensify both its fund raising efforts
\nand its public accountability report transparency.<\/p>\n
With local, regional and international multisport events
\ncoming up -- the National Games (PON), the Olympic Games and the
\n2001 Southeast Asian Games -- KONI chairman Wismoyo Arismunandar
\nsaid that he would try to encourage the government, and the
\ngeneral public as well, to invest their money in sports
\ndevelopment.<\/p>\n
\"We have to be able to appraise our strengths and weaknesses,
\neradicate the weaknesses and organize our sports potential.
\nAlthough we were up against it last year, we were still able to
\nmaintain our superiority.<\/p>\n
\"We want the government to pay more attention and be more
\ncommitted to sports development. I don't mean to beg for money
\nlike a small kid, but I want everyone to realize that sports are
\nessential to the nation's life ,\" Wismoyo said at a media
\nbriefing on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
He said KONI was still weighing three proposals on fund
\nraising program.<\/p>\n
KONI's audit chief I Putu Gede Ary Suta, who was also present
\nat the briefing, said KONI had appointed accounting firm Richard
\nTanubrata & Co. to audit the council's accounts. He also said the
\ncouncil had asked another accounting firm, Prasetio, Utomo & Co.,
\nto design a new financial system.<\/p>\n
\"We want to increase people's participation in sports
\ndevelopment, but at the same time we should have good public
\naccountability reports,\" Ary, who is also a staff member at the
\nMinistry of Finance, said.<\/p>\n
He said that the report would have a different format because
\nKONI is a nonprofit organization. \"KONI is nonprofit. It has no
\nworking capital but donations instead. It's also a
\nsemigovernmental organization.\"<\/p>\n
Ary suggested KONI hold a special seminar on fund raising to
\nend the disputes surrounding sports funding.<\/p>\n
\"There's always controversy when KONI starts to raise funds.
\nLet's try to design a concept of fund raising. Everybody is
\ntalking about raising funds for sports development, yet KONI is
\nstill finding it difficult to get the money.\"<\/p>\n
During the media briefing, the first of the year, Wismoyo
\nmentioned some of the problems facing national sports
\ndevelopment.<\/p>\n
He acknowledged the government's lack of support for sports,
\nadding that some Asian countries earmark a considerable amount of
\ntheir budgets on sports development.<\/p>\n
\"Vietnam is a poor country but its government pays a lot of
\nattention to sports. The Malaysian government spent US$28 million
\non training for the 1999 Southeast Asian Games, while the Chinese
\nTaipei government, as stated in their 1994 report, allocated Rp
\n400 billion for sports,\" he said. (ivy)<\/p>",
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